We finally made it to Ro's, packed up her car and left. The drive to Bloomington was uneventful, thank the Lord. We arrived at the Super 8 Motel (which I later dubbed the Super Ghetto Motel) and got checked in. Then we took the luggage cart out and loaded it up so we wouldn't have to make more than one trip. We head back to find the elevator only to find there is none. So we went back to the front desk to request a room change. We got the different key cards and went off down the hall. On the way we passed a soda machine that had soda bottles that were completely sucked in in the middle. That made us rather leery of the vending machines. Then we passed the pool where we could see a thin layer of film covering it. We decided we wouldn't be swimming that evening unless the boys had a better pool. (They were in the Quality Inn that was literally right next door.)
We got settled in by yanking the comforters off the beds, inspecting for bed bugs, admiring the lovely caulking job in the bathroom and discovering that our window opened a whopping 2 inches. Ro got started on her hair, Nicole was touching up her nails and I was scrubbing at the rough skin on my feet when Ro commented, "If only the boys could see us now." The things we do to look good, I tell you. ;-) Sometime during all this, Shane called me to let me know that he had arrived and was at his hotel and told us to call him when we went to dinner. 45 minutes later, we had decided on Jimmy Johns with plans for Ritters afterward. We called Shane and managed to find him despite Bloomington's fascination with one-way streets and not using street signs.
We had a great time at Jimmy Johns and then asked the guys who worked there if they knew where the Ritters was. They said that they didn't think there was a Ritters (which was dumb because they had one listed in our motel book) but there was a ColdStone down the street. We decided to settle for that and took off walking. We walked all over and the people we saw fit into 3 categories: hippies, preppies and skaters. We were the odd people out. (I didn't look as hippie as I usually do.) Apparently what that town does for fun is give bad directions to tourists. I don't think we got good directions from anyone. The ColdStone ended up being right down the street from Jimmy Johns but we didn't discover this until we had walked to the other side of the town. Luckily it was nice out and we had time to kill anyway so we didn't mind. It completely amused us that no one could give us proper directions.
We finally found the place and each of us spent about $5 on ice cream. It was tasty though. We continued walking and right across the street was the IU campus so we walked over there while we ate. There was a building with some quote on it but a tree was hiding the last bit of it so we all walked over trying to read the darn thing and then it didn't even make sense when we figured out what it said. We sat down on a bench and just talked about everything. This is where it got *really* fun. (Sarcasm.)
Nicole called Jenn to find out if they were on their way yet. Andy and Chris were driving up together and Jenn was picking up Tami and bringing her after dropping Eli off with Pati, Jenn's mom. She was supposed to take Eli for the night and bring him up the next day. Come to find out that Andy's truck had run out of gas and Jenn had his credit card so he and Chris were stuck in Greenwood waiting for Jenn. Meanwhile, Jenn was having a crisis of her own. Her mother decided at the last minute that she didn't want to take Eli and that she was going to go hang out with some family members instead. So Jenn had been running all over trying to find her mother, who hadn't called to tell her any of this and who wasn't answering any phone calls. When Nicole talked to Jenn, she was completely stressed out. This made all four of us furious with Pati. Of all the selfish, idiotic things to pull right before your daughter's wedding so that she's even more stressed out. The bridesmaids went into planning mode, calling Maurice to see if he would take Eli and trying to come up with a solution. Maurice said he would but by the time we got ahold of Jenn, she was in Greenwood with Eli. So they had to bring him with them. This resulted in him being up until 2:00 in the morning instead of getting a good night's sleep like he should have.
We decided that Jenn was going to need lots of love, chocolate and alcohol by the time she got to our motel so we went in searth of an liquor store. (More funky directions from some preps.) We got to the store and Nicole and I both had to use the restroom. They didn't have one for public use so we ran down the street to the Waffle House. Inside we were met with a sight that about made us pee in our pants. There were two toilets but the only thing seperating them was a wall that didn't even reach the end of the toilets. We both bust out laughing and just said, "Ok, you don't look and neither will I." Of course, this didn't stop Nicole from looking over once we were seated and saying, "You have tan lines!" lol. We walked back to the car (got honked at by guys about 3 or 4 times in the very short distance *eye roll*) and showed Shane and Ro the picture I had taken with my phone. (Of the toilets, not us on them. Sickos. ;-) ) We dropped Shane back at his hotel and then went to Marsh for chocolate (the state of the bottles in the pop machine gave us pause over the condition of the snack machine as well) and a funny card. We finally picked one about ways to relieve stress. Seemed appropo.
On the way to the Marsh, I called my mom to tell her that I loved her. When she bewilderly asked why, I said "Because I know that if I had a kid and was getting married and you had agreed to watch him, you would never decide at the last minute to ditch him and stress me out even more." I then explained what was going on. Ro, Nicole and I were still having random outbursts of anger and just generally wanting to call and cuss Pati out. (Nothing makes me cuss like insane selfish people. ;-) ) So to relieve stress, when we got back to the hotel, we played the song 'Whip It' and danced around the car in the parking lot. I have no idea if people saw us but we were laughing at ourselves. Especially when I placed special emphasis on the "step on a crack, break your mother's back" lines and started jumping on a crack. We had parked around back instead of the front and walked to the side where a door was. At first we didn't see the door because there was a huge wall in front of us that we thought we'd have to climb. I told Nicole to "spiderman her way up". Luckily we saw the door before anyone got seriously injured. We went inside and signed the card. Nicole and I made a heart out of the candy we had bought and made Jenn's name next to it. Then we started in with the showers so we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning.
Everyone finally arrived awhile later. Andy and the guys were wonderful and took Eli with them for the night. We ended up going over to put our legs in the hot tub and relax in the non-filmy pool. Chris and Kaleb both went swimming and Chris got it in his head to pick me up and throw me in the pool. Lucky for him he didn't actually go through with it but I still ended up pretty wet since he had already dived in. Since I was already in my pjs, I ended up sleeping in a t-shirt and underwear. This lead to Tami giving me the nickname Undies. *shrug* I've been called worse. :-) The girls had a giggle fest and we didn't get to sleep until around 2:30.
Look for Part 3, or Why Hippies Shouldn't Plan Weddings
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Wedding Crazies - Part 1 (Just Getting There)
Be glad I'm breaking this up into parts. It's L-O-N-G!
Thursday night I went over to Ro's house where she sewed weave into my hair. I didn't want it as short as it is for the wedding because that severely limited what I could do with it. Since the girl that Ro did before me took a little longer than planned we got a late start. I ended up getting about 4 hours of sleep for the 4th night in a row. This didn't help my stress level the next day.
Friday morning came way too soon. We were supposed to meet at Nicole's so Melissa could do our nails. I dragged my butt out of bed, despite the severe protesting from my back and got over there around 9:30. Melissa was quite the perfectionist. I tried to do french tips on my toes and she made me take it off so she could re-do it. :-) They looked good though, as did my hands.
We had planned on leaving at 3 to avoid rush hour but a friend of Nicole's said that rush hour starts at 3 on 37 heading to Bloomington. So we then were trying to get ahold of Ro to see if we could squeeze what we had to do in by 2 or if we'd have to wait until 7. Fortunately, Nicole remember an alternate route that avoided 37 so we could still leave at 3.
I left Nicole's and stopped at the tanning bed, then went home to pack and finish cleaning the house. My aunt's birthday was that night and I had to help clean even though I wouldn't be there. Nicole arrived early and helped me clean so I could finish packing. We managed to leave at the time we said we would to get to Ro's but on the way, I remembered I needed to go to the bank. This is where it becomes apparent that my stress level was higher than I thought. My bank is inside St. Vincent so I have to park in front of the hospital. There are maybe 20 parking spaces in this lot, about 5 of which are handicapped. Needless to say, there is almost never parking so *everyone* parks on the curb, despite the "No parking, fire lane" signs. Apparently the hospital has decided to put an end to this because when we pulled up, there was a security guard sitting in his car right outside. I told Nicole that I might need her to drive in circles while I was in the bank. I got out of the car and got maybe 10 steps before I had the guard coming towards me saying, "Ma'am, you can't park there." I sighed, bit my tongue to keep from yelling back at him, went back to the car, told Nicole to *waste my gas* and drive in circles until I got back. As I start walking back up, I see the guard step in front of some ladies car and start hollaring at her about something. She was yelling right back (angry black woman!) and the last thing I heard was the guard saying, "Do you want to be arrested?" Great. A parking lot cop on a power trip. I finished in the bank, amid the grumblings of the other bankers about the Nazi guard and went back outside right as Nicole was pulling past. So I had to wait for her to drive all the way back around. This put me in an even worse mood and I made a point of shooting daggers at the guard while I stood on the curb tapping my foot. (I know, real mature. I didn't care. I was pissed.) She finally gets back around and I get in the car and immediately start ranting. "If they don't want us parking there, they need to put more parking spaces in front of the f-ing bank! Where am I supposed to park? There is no way I'm paying to park in the damn parking garage every time I have to come here! I am not paying for 5 freaking minutes of parking!" Then I called my mom, informed her of the security guard, ranting about having to pay to park and then she says, "You don't have to pay. Have the teller stamp your parking ticket and it's free." Needless to say, this completely took the wind out of my sails. I started cracking up at myself.
We stopped at Nicole's bank (no security guard there!) and went thru the CFA drive-thru to get food since I hadn't eaten yet. Then we headed for Ro's. On the way there, the next thing to set me off happened. We were at a light behind an ice cream truck that on one side said "Real men know and love Jesus" and on the other side said "Real women marry real men." This, of course, started me ranting and raving again. "So a woman isn't a real woman unless she marries a real man? What if she doesn't want to get married? What if she's single all her life? Does that mean she's not a real woman?" Nicole was dying laughing at me. She goes, "This is just push Lauren's buttons day!" (Little did we know what awaited us that evening.)
Coming soon: Part 2, or Don't Trust Your Insane Mother!
Thursday night I went over to Ro's house where she sewed weave into my hair. I didn't want it as short as it is for the wedding because that severely limited what I could do with it. Since the girl that Ro did before me took a little longer than planned we got a late start. I ended up getting about 4 hours of sleep for the 4th night in a row. This didn't help my stress level the next day.
Friday morning came way too soon. We were supposed to meet at Nicole's so Melissa could do our nails. I dragged my butt out of bed, despite the severe protesting from my back and got over there around 9:30. Melissa was quite the perfectionist. I tried to do french tips on my toes and she made me take it off so she could re-do it. :-) They looked good though, as did my hands.
We had planned on leaving at 3 to avoid rush hour but a friend of Nicole's said that rush hour starts at 3 on 37 heading to Bloomington. So we then were trying to get ahold of Ro to see if we could squeeze what we had to do in by 2 or if we'd have to wait until 7. Fortunately, Nicole remember an alternate route that avoided 37 so we could still leave at 3.
I left Nicole's and stopped at the tanning bed, then went home to pack and finish cleaning the house. My aunt's birthday was that night and I had to help clean even though I wouldn't be there. Nicole arrived early and helped me clean so I could finish packing. We managed to leave at the time we said we would to get to Ro's but on the way, I remembered I needed to go to the bank. This is where it becomes apparent that my stress level was higher than I thought. My bank is inside St. Vincent so I have to park in front of the hospital. There are maybe 20 parking spaces in this lot, about 5 of which are handicapped. Needless to say, there is almost never parking so *everyone* parks on the curb, despite the "No parking, fire lane" signs. Apparently the hospital has decided to put an end to this because when we pulled up, there was a security guard sitting in his car right outside. I told Nicole that I might need her to drive in circles while I was in the bank. I got out of the car and got maybe 10 steps before I had the guard coming towards me saying, "Ma'am, you can't park there." I sighed, bit my tongue to keep from yelling back at him, went back to the car, told Nicole to *waste my gas* and drive in circles until I got back. As I start walking back up, I see the guard step in front of some ladies car and start hollaring at her about something. She was yelling right back (angry black woman!) and the last thing I heard was the guard saying, "Do you want to be arrested?" Great. A parking lot cop on a power trip. I finished in the bank, amid the grumblings of the other bankers about the Nazi guard and went back outside right as Nicole was pulling past. So I had to wait for her to drive all the way back around. This put me in an even worse mood and I made a point of shooting daggers at the guard while I stood on the curb tapping my foot. (I know, real mature. I didn't care. I was pissed.) She finally gets back around and I get in the car and immediately start ranting. "If they don't want us parking there, they need to put more parking spaces in front of the f-ing bank! Where am I supposed to park? There is no way I'm paying to park in the damn parking garage every time I have to come here! I am not paying for 5 freaking minutes of parking!" Then I called my mom, informed her of the security guard, ranting about having to pay to park and then she says, "You don't have to pay. Have the teller stamp your parking ticket and it's free." Needless to say, this completely took the wind out of my sails. I started cracking up at myself.
We stopped at Nicole's bank (no security guard there!) and went thru the CFA drive-thru to get food since I hadn't eaten yet. Then we headed for Ro's. On the way there, the next thing to set me off happened. We were at a light behind an ice cream truck that on one side said "Real men know and love Jesus" and on the other side said "Real women marry real men." This, of course, started me ranting and raving again. "So a woman isn't a real woman unless she marries a real man? What if she doesn't want to get married? What if she's single all her life? Does that mean she's not a real woman?" Nicole was dying laughing at me. She goes, "This is just push Lauren's buttons day!" (Little did we know what awaited us that evening.)
Coming soon: Part 2, or Don't Trust Your Insane Mother!
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Whew!
What an INSANE weekend!!!!!!! I'll blog about all of the wedding crazies later because I don't have the time or the energy right now. I feel like I've seen both extremes for weddings now. There was Jodi and Kevin's where everyone was calm and helpful and we didn't have crazy people bailing on us in major ways at the last second. The only hitch we had with that one was the curtain started to catch on fire but Poppa Dan put a quick end to that. And then yesterday we had Jenn and Andy's wedding where just about everything that could go wrong did. (Ro and Nicole: I still have moments of just wanting to pick up the phone and cuss someone out. ;-) ) But they're married now and that's what's important.
A conversation I had with my mother when I was ranting about wedding stuff:
Me: *rant, rant, rave, rant*
Mom: *give me a look* When you get married, you're eloping, aren't you?
Me: No, I'm just not getting married. I'm skipping the entire process. But if I did ever lose my mind, then yes. I'd elope.
No grandbabies from me! :-P
And I'm beginning to think that someone on the INtake staff has a crush on me because I'm in the magazine for the 5th WEEK IN A ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck?! I doubt I'll make it this week though. Matt basically sent us a prompt that we've already done. (On our sucky public school system.) I'll all about recycling, even blogs. ;-)
Peace ya'll!
A conversation I had with my mother when I was ranting about wedding stuff:
Me: *rant, rant, rave, rant*
Mom: *give me a look* When you get married, you're eloping, aren't you?
Me: No, I'm just not getting married. I'm skipping the entire process. But if I did ever lose my mind, then yes. I'd elope.
No grandbabies from me! :-P
And I'm beginning to think that someone on the INtake staff has a crush on me because I'm in the magazine for the 5th WEEK IN A ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck?! I doubt I'll make it this week though. Matt basically sent us a prompt that we've already done. (On our sucky public school system.) I'll all about recycling, even blogs. ;-)
Peace ya'll!
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Just Me - A Poem
One set of footprints
All that I see
Why did You leave?
You're what I
Needed You see
But You left me be
When I needed You most
I look at the coast
And on the shore
Your prints are no more
There's only one
Hope You had fun
When You left me cold
In my night of the soul
I didn't feel whole
Because You weren't there
Didn't You care?
You counted the hairs
on my head
But in that night
You left me for dead
The things You said
Didn't ring true
So where were You?
Footprints
I see
Only one
Just me
Inspired by: Brian Keene's talk and the Footprints poem
All that I see
Why did You leave?
You're what I
Needed You see
But You left me be
When I needed You most
I look at the coast
And on the shore
Your prints are no more
There's only one
Hope You had fun
When You left me cold
In my night of the soul
I didn't feel whole
Because You weren't there
Didn't You care?
You counted the hairs
on my head
But in that night
You left me for dead
The things You said
Didn't ring true
So where were You?
Footprints
I see
Only one
Just me
Inspired by: Brian Keene's talk and the Footprints poem
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Mo*Con
This past weekend, our church hosted a horror writing friend of Maurice's, Brian Keene. Brian has several stories published and has had a very interesting spiritual journey so far. Maurice knew about it and thought it would be a fantastic idea to have Brian come speak at our church.
Some ideas look better on paper.
Haha, just kidding. :-D It went great. The party started on Saturday when Chesya arrived. She and I had already been planning on ganging up on Maurice. Crystal quickly fell in with this idea (she went with Maurice to pick her up from the airport) and Sally ended up almost looking sorry for Mo once we all got started.
The Broaddus' house was filled with writers and fans. There were also about 10 kids running around and having a party all their own in the garage. Brian made the mistake of trying to engage them at one point. I think he learned his lesson. ;-)
The members of the Indiana Horror Writers were present and we took a picture with Brian in our laps. (Still pondering over how I got sucked into a horror writing group. ;-) )
We got to meet quite a few people from the message board that we'd never seen in person. (Yay Carrie!) The ladies of the board also ended up taking a picture of "the butt's God gave us". (Go read Crystal's blog. It's not as bad as it sounds.)
I almost had to ask to see the men's Guy Cards when they began talking about the intricate details and plot points of Days of Our Lives. I listened in stunned silence as 3 or 4 grown men got into a debate about this stuff. At one point, Brian noticed the incredulous expression on my face and starting laughing. Never in all my days did I think I would listen to a bunch of horror writer's admit to watching a soap opera.
Brian reassured Maurice over and over that he wouldn't lose his job for having Brian speak. "The church might be hit by lightening and 42 people will die but you won't get fired." :-) In the end, none of the above happened. After partying late into the night Saturday (which consisted of Brian telling me I have cute feet and complimenting my jewelry, Crystal and me making a chocolate run, massive cuddle time and me finally getting to see (most of) Boondock Saints!), a few of us managed to drag our butts to church that morning. Then we headed back to the Broaddus' to hang out some more. This consisted of watching Robin Hood and Maurice and Brian being *major* geeks and playing Magic. (Some sort of card game where you pretend to be a wizard. I've blocked most of it from my memory. ;-) ) Then Brian went to take a nap and I started reading his book, The Rising. About 20 minutes later he comes back out and asks me, "Do you have a brother?" "Yeah." "Weird." *gives him quizzical look* "I had a dream and you were in it and you had a brother." lol.
We all got changed and went to the church. A few people I'd never seen before were there so I assumed they were fans of Brian. We finally got started and Maurice gave a short intro before Brian got up to speak. Brian gave us a short history of himself and explained how he got to where he is today. Then we did a Q and A time (lol @ Crystal) and after a short break, Brian read an excerpt from one of his books. Judging by the few people it brought to tears and the rush for the book table afterwards, I'd say he was a hit. :-)
Despite my scolding and pleading for him to stay another night with us, he had to get back home. So Crystal and I promptly attacked his message board. :-) He keeps threatening to steal us from Maurice and we aren't exactly resisting the idea. Hehe. We're a couple of happy fan girls. I also got to read a book of Chesya's called 'Chocolate Park'. Very good. As is The Rising, which I'm almost finished with.
All in all, it went very well. Maurice still has a job. Brian made it home safely and is putting up with me and Crystal on his board. Chesya and Carrie also made it home and we've all been yaking away on the message board. If you want pictures, go to my MySpace.
Next year, we plan on doing a Mo*Con II. Our guest of honor? Wrath. :-D
Some ideas look better on paper.
Haha, just kidding. :-D It went great. The party started on Saturday when Chesya arrived. She and I had already been planning on ganging up on Maurice. Crystal quickly fell in with this idea (she went with Maurice to pick her up from the airport) and Sally ended up almost looking sorry for Mo once we all got started.
The Broaddus' house was filled with writers and fans. There were also about 10 kids running around and having a party all their own in the garage. Brian made the mistake of trying to engage them at one point. I think he learned his lesson. ;-)
The members of the Indiana Horror Writers were present and we took a picture with Brian in our laps. (Still pondering over how I got sucked into a horror writing group. ;-) )
We got to meet quite a few people from the message board that we'd never seen in person. (Yay Carrie!) The ladies of the board also ended up taking a picture of "the butt's God gave us". (Go read Crystal's blog. It's not as bad as it sounds.)
I almost had to ask to see the men's Guy Cards when they began talking about the intricate details and plot points of Days of Our Lives. I listened in stunned silence as 3 or 4 grown men got into a debate about this stuff. At one point, Brian noticed the incredulous expression on my face and starting laughing. Never in all my days did I think I would listen to a bunch of horror writer's admit to watching a soap opera.
Brian reassured Maurice over and over that he wouldn't lose his job for having Brian speak. "The church might be hit by lightening and 42 people will die but you won't get fired." :-) In the end, none of the above happened. After partying late into the night Saturday (which consisted of Brian telling me I have cute feet and complimenting my jewelry, Crystal and me making a chocolate run, massive cuddle time and me finally getting to see (most of) Boondock Saints!), a few of us managed to drag our butts to church that morning. Then we headed back to the Broaddus' to hang out some more. This consisted of watching Robin Hood and Maurice and Brian being *major* geeks and playing Magic. (Some sort of card game where you pretend to be a wizard. I've blocked most of it from my memory. ;-) ) Then Brian went to take a nap and I started reading his book, The Rising. About 20 minutes later he comes back out and asks me, "Do you have a brother?" "Yeah." "Weird." *gives him quizzical look* "I had a dream and you were in it and you had a brother." lol.
We all got changed and went to the church. A few people I'd never seen before were there so I assumed they were fans of Brian. We finally got started and Maurice gave a short intro before Brian got up to speak. Brian gave us a short history of himself and explained how he got to where he is today. Then we did a Q and A time (lol @ Crystal) and after a short break, Brian read an excerpt from one of his books. Judging by the few people it brought to tears and the rush for the book table afterwards, I'd say he was a hit. :-)
Despite my scolding and pleading for him to stay another night with us, he had to get back home. So Crystal and I promptly attacked his message board. :-) He keeps threatening to steal us from Maurice and we aren't exactly resisting the idea. Hehe. We're a couple of happy fan girls. I also got to read a book of Chesya's called 'Chocolate Park'. Very good. As is The Rising, which I'm almost finished with.
All in all, it went very well. Maurice still has a job. Brian made it home safely and is putting up with me and Crystal on his board. Chesya and Carrie also made it home and we've all been yaking away on the message board. If you want pictures, go to my MySpace.
Next year, we plan on doing a Mo*Con II. Our guest of honor? Wrath. :-D
How About That, Mr. Doubting Mustafa?
I'm the youngest blogger on INtake by at least 4 years and I just made the magazine for the 4th week in a row. This is really encouraging for me since I've been doubting my writing abilities lately. I've also gotten into a few situations where my ability to have a well thought out opinion has been called into question because I'm so young. (Not the least of which being that whole debacle on MySpace.) Of course, these blog prompts have been kinda tricky because it's usually stuff that I don't particularly care about so I haven't given it a lot of thought. So I get 3 or 4 days to come up with not only an opinion but a well thought out blog to go with it. I usually end up running my mouth but apparently that's working. ;-)
"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." - 1 Tim. 4:12
"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." - 1 Tim. 4:12
Monday, June 05, 2006
"My love I love to stay here"
As I said in my other blog, I went to the Dave Matthew's Band concert on Saturday!!!!! Squee!!!!! :-D If you haven't been to a Dave concert, go! It makes you appreciate the music even more.
After I got home from the park, I flew around the house to get ready and then drove over to the Mayes' so that Josh and I could leave to pick up Danny. Danny and Jer were at Joel's open house so we hung out there for about half an hour. That was pretty fun, though I was already tired so I just sat on their stairs with Jer for most of it. At one point, Barb Kauffman came over and we were chatting and somehow it got around to the fact that I had come with Josh and that we were going to see Dave together. So Barb leans over and is all like, "Are you guys dating?" She pretty much got the "are you..." out of her mouth before I was shaking my head. No, no, no! I said, "No we're not. We don't need those rumors flying again." Geez! Now I remember why I was being avoidy to him for awhile there. When we were youth sponsors, all we had to do was breathe in each others general direction for everyone to be saying "Josh and Lauren are dating!"
Anyway, enough of the mini-rant. :-) We leave there and head over to the Target on 116th where we were meeting up with Kristen (I have no idea what her last name is) and Jen Mayes. We decided to get something to eat and I spotted a Subway so we swung around to ask Kristen if she wanted anything and then went over. While we were there, Jen showed up and got food too. Then we all drove back over to where Kristen was parked in the Target parking lot. After much debate, we decided on taking two cars. Jen hopped in with Kristen and off we went.
Traffic wasn't too bad getting in, which was kinda surprising. Josh had stopped and bought some fun stuff to take in with us if they would let us. We got the bubbles and the styrofoam plane in but they wouldn't let us have the beach ball and the long tube thingys that if you spin them in the air, they make a whistling sound. (Don't ask what the name is.) We found a spot and spread out our blanket. Josh and Danny took off to walk around, then Kristen left to find one of the cool drink things we saw. Jen and I stayed and watched the stuff and chatted a bit. They all came back and the opening band got up. G-love and Special Sauce? Anybody heard of them? We hadn't. They weren't......terrible. Kristen and I went to see if one of the stands was selling beach balls because we saw some people tossing them around but no luck.
Josh had gone walking and ran into Kayla Kaufman and Jill Tuttle who were at the very front of the lawn and said they'd save us some room if we wanted to be closer. So after G-love and his merry band of sauce got off the stage, we decided we'd better move while we could. We were all joking around as we were packing up "Well, G-love was great. Time to go home!" It was a good thing we moved when we did. There was barely room for all of us as it was. The Mayes' cousin Adam ended up finding us and standing with us too. Probably my favorite part of the night was watching Adam dance around during Two Step. :-D
Shortly after Dave came on, Danny tossed the plane toward stage. While we'd been waiting for G-love, he'd written on it "Throw to stage". It didn't make it but it got about half-way. We also had fun with the bubbles and Josh had made a sign on a sheet that said "#41" because he wanted them to play that song. We had the people standing in front of us hold it for us and Josh had told them not to hold it too high because it would block the people behind us. But they were rather drunk so they didn't listen and we had the people behind us yelling at us. A bunch of drunk and high people yelling "Put that f***ing s*** down!" was pretty funny. I think they played it but it wasn't until later so I don't know if the band saw the sign or not.
Kristen and I made a couple of trips to the bathroom. On the way back from one, we were walking along and suddenly I feel someone grab my butt as they walk by. Oh, I was so mad. Whoever it was is lucky I didn't turn around and knock them upside the head. The only thing that kept me from doing it was the fact that I didn't want to accidently hit an innocent bystander. Of all the women there, I was definitely not the one to do that to. *scowl*
We had a blast singing and dancing and jumping. At one point, Kayla turned to me, grabbed me and kissed me on the cheek and said "love ya!" Josh was next to us and bust out laughing. I'm sure the look on my face said "What was that about?!"
After the band was off the stage for good, we all sat around and chatted while we waited for the crowd to thin out. We knew there was no reason to be in a hurry. We could either sit there or sit in traffic. Even after we walked down to the cars, we sat outside for quite a bit. There was no point in sitting in line and wasting precious gas. We had an interesting discussion about whether or not we let someone borrow our tooth brush. Jen said she would, Kristen and I were completely against it and Josh pointed out that it wasn't any different then kissing someone. To which I replied "This is why I don't kiss anyone." So we decided that sharing a tooth brush was a step toward kissing. lol. (Annie, you know this means we will never be sharing a tooth brush. Our rule stands. ;-) )
While we were sitting there, we had a couple of guys drive by and one of them yelled out the window something about "you bunch of lesbos!" Apparently the look on my face was priceless because Kristen and Jen cracked up. After the butt-grabbage, I was in no mood for more idiot boys. *sigh*
We finally got into the cars because it was cold and then yet another debate began. Kristen had had too much to drink and was afraid of driving around the concert area because of all the cops. She said that if we got her to the Target parking lot, she'd be fine because she knew how to get home from there. Unfortunately, that also still put her where there are a lot of cops. Plus we weren't about to drive her to Target, just to put her in her car and say "drive safe!" So we kept going round and round about what to do. Finally I said "Josh, you drive Kristen's car and I'll follow you to Target. We'll figure the rest out from there." My thought was at least we could get Jen to her car so that she wouldn't have to be out any later. I was fine doing whatever. So we took Jen to her car, then I followed Josh to Kristen's house which is out in the boonies!
We got her home, then Josh came back to his car and said to me, "You can drive us home if you want." I was like, "No, that's ok." I knew I was going to have to drive to Speedway once he got me back to my car and my feet were already hurting. So he drove us back to his parents house where I got my car and said good night. Then I had to stop at my house to get my change of clothes for church and the house keys. I'd had my mom drive over and feed the pets at 7 since I couldn't make it back. I ended up looking all over the house and finally having to wake up my mom at 2 in the morning to ask what she had done with the keys. Then I called Maurice (whom I'd called when we were driving back to Target to let him know that I wasn't going to be calling until much later then I'd originally told him) and he kept me company to....his house. :-) Josh, Danny and I had been saying how hungry we were (Subway was a thing of the forgotten past by that time) but we knew it was too late to stop anywhere. I told this to Maurice and he said, "Too bad you can't stop here. We still have leftovers from Ro's party." I more or less said "Start heating them up!" So I stopped there and ate. (I think the weed that we'd been inhaling from everyone around us had given us second-hand munchies. ;-) ) Then he kept me company the rest of the way to Speedway and once again while I made sure the house was secure. (Yay pseudo-dads!)
So that was my first Dave concert. I've been listening to the Central Park concert cds pretty much non-stop. Now Josh, Danny and I want to do a road trip to see them in Cincinatti in August. :-D
This I admit
Seems so good
Hard to believe an end to it
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
The walls and halls have disappeared
They've disappeared, yeah...
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
In a corner was wondering
If a change could be better than this
And then I worry...
Maybe things won't be better than they have been
Here in the warehouse
At the Warehouse
At the Warehouse
How I love to stay here
At the Warehouse
Every man and woman get alive
After I got home from the park, I flew around the house to get ready and then drove over to the Mayes' so that Josh and I could leave to pick up Danny. Danny and Jer were at Joel's open house so we hung out there for about half an hour. That was pretty fun, though I was already tired so I just sat on their stairs with Jer for most of it. At one point, Barb Kauffman came over and we were chatting and somehow it got around to the fact that I had come with Josh and that we were going to see Dave together. So Barb leans over and is all like, "Are you guys dating?" She pretty much got the "are you..." out of her mouth before I was shaking my head. No, no, no! I said, "No we're not. We don't need those rumors flying again." Geez! Now I remember why I was being avoidy to him for awhile there. When we were youth sponsors, all we had to do was breathe in each others general direction for everyone to be saying "Josh and Lauren are dating!"
Anyway, enough of the mini-rant. :-) We leave there and head over to the Target on 116th where we were meeting up with Kristen (I have no idea what her last name is) and Jen Mayes. We decided to get something to eat and I spotted a Subway so we swung around to ask Kristen if she wanted anything and then went over. While we were there, Jen showed up and got food too. Then we all drove back over to where Kristen was parked in the Target parking lot. After much debate, we decided on taking two cars. Jen hopped in with Kristen and off we went.
Traffic wasn't too bad getting in, which was kinda surprising. Josh had stopped and bought some fun stuff to take in with us if they would let us. We got the bubbles and the styrofoam plane in but they wouldn't let us have the beach ball and the long tube thingys that if you spin them in the air, they make a whistling sound. (Don't ask what the name is.) We found a spot and spread out our blanket. Josh and Danny took off to walk around, then Kristen left to find one of the cool drink things we saw. Jen and I stayed and watched the stuff and chatted a bit. They all came back and the opening band got up. G-love and Special Sauce? Anybody heard of them? We hadn't. They weren't......terrible. Kristen and I went to see if one of the stands was selling beach balls because we saw some people tossing them around but no luck.
Josh had gone walking and ran into Kayla Kaufman and Jill Tuttle who were at the very front of the lawn and said they'd save us some room if we wanted to be closer. So after G-love and his merry band of sauce got off the stage, we decided we'd better move while we could. We were all joking around as we were packing up "Well, G-love was great. Time to go home!" It was a good thing we moved when we did. There was barely room for all of us as it was. The Mayes' cousin Adam ended up finding us and standing with us too. Probably my favorite part of the night was watching Adam dance around during Two Step. :-D
Shortly after Dave came on, Danny tossed the plane toward stage. While we'd been waiting for G-love, he'd written on it "Throw to stage". It didn't make it but it got about half-way. We also had fun with the bubbles and Josh had made a sign on a sheet that said "#41" because he wanted them to play that song. We had the people standing in front of us hold it for us and Josh had told them not to hold it too high because it would block the people behind us. But they were rather drunk so they didn't listen and we had the people behind us yelling at us. A bunch of drunk and high people yelling "Put that f***ing s*** down!" was pretty funny. I think they played it but it wasn't until later so I don't know if the band saw the sign or not.
Kristen and I made a couple of trips to the bathroom. On the way back from one, we were walking along and suddenly I feel someone grab my butt as they walk by. Oh, I was so mad. Whoever it was is lucky I didn't turn around and knock them upside the head. The only thing that kept me from doing it was the fact that I didn't want to accidently hit an innocent bystander. Of all the women there, I was definitely not the one to do that to. *scowl*
We had a blast singing and dancing and jumping. At one point, Kayla turned to me, grabbed me and kissed me on the cheek and said "love ya!" Josh was next to us and bust out laughing. I'm sure the look on my face said "What was that about?!"
After the band was off the stage for good, we all sat around and chatted while we waited for the crowd to thin out. We knew there was no reason to be in a hurry. We could either sit there or sit in traffic. Even after we walked down to the cars, we sat outside for quite a bit. There was no point in sitting in line and wasting precious gas. We had an interesting discussion about whether or not we let someone borrow our tooth brush. Jen said she would, Kristen and I were completely against it and Josh pointed out that it wasn't any different then kissing someone. To which I replied "This is why I don't kiss anyone." So we decided that sharing a tooth brush was a step toward kissing. lol. (Annie, you know this means we will never be sharing a tooth brush. Our rule stands. ;-) )
While we were sitting there, we had a couple of guys drive by and one of them yelled out the window something about "you bunch of lesbos!" Apparently the look on my face was priceless because Kristen and Jen cracked up. After the butt-grabbage, I was in no mood for more idiot boys. *sigh*
We finally got into the cars because it was cold and then yet another debate began. Kristen had had too much to drink and was afraid of driving around the concert area because of all the cops. She said that if we got her to the Target parking lot, she'd be fine because she knew how to get home from there. Unfortunately, that also still put her where there are a lot of cops. Plus we weren't about to drive her to Target, just to put her in her car and say "drive safe!" So we kept going round and round about what to do. Finally I said "Josh, you drive Kristen's car and I'll follow you to Target. We'll figure the rest out from there." My thought was at least we could get Jen to her car so that she wouldn't have to be out any later. I was fine doing whatever. So we took Jen to her car, then I followed Josh to Kristen's house which is out in the boonies!
We got her home, then Josh came back to his car and said to me, "You can drive us home if you want." I was like, "No, that's ok." I knew I was going to have to drive to Speedway once he got me back to my car and my feet were already hurting. So he drove us back to his parents house where I got my car and said good night. Then I had to stop at my house to get my change of clothes for church and the house keys. I'd had my mom drive over and feed the pets at 7 since I couldn't make it back. I ended up looking all over the house and finally having to wake up my mom at 2 in the morning to ask what she had done with the keys. Then I called Maurice (whom I'd called when we were driving back to Target to let him know that I wasn't going to be calling until much later then I'd originally told him) and he kept me company to....his house. :-) Josh, Danny and I had been saying how hungry we were (Subway was a thing of the forgotten past by that time) but we knew it was too late to stop anywhere. I told this to Maurice and he said, "Too bad you can't stop here. We still have leftovers from Ro's party." I more or less said "Start heating them up!" So I stopped there and ate. (I think the weed that we'd been inhaling from everyone around us had given us second-hand munchies. ;-) ) Then he kept me company the rest of the way to Speedway and once again while I made sure the house was secure. (Yay pseudo-dads!)
So that was my first Dave concert. I've been listening to the Central Park concert cds pretty much non-stop. Now Josh, Danny and I want to do a road trip to see them in Cincinatti in August. :-D
This I admit
Seems so good
Hard to believe an end to it
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
The walls and halls have disappeared
They've disappeared, yeah...
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
In a corner was wondering
If a change could be better than this
And then I worry...
Maybe things won't be better than they have been
Here in the warehouse
At the Warehouse
At the Warehouse
How I love to stay here
At the Warehouse
Every man and woman get alive
Craziness!
The past few days have been crazy. Thursday morning I was at work and Reegan and I were on a walk when my mom called. She was calling to let me know about that rapist being really close to my house. So I started making some plans for what I would do if they hadn't caught him by that evening. When I got home, there was a message on the answering machine from some people from CPC wanting me to house/pet-sit this weekend. I called them back and told them I could.
That night we still hadn't heard anything about the rapist so I took Mikayla and we stayed the night at the Broaddus'. We were supposed to have a play date the next day anyway and I figured she would enjoy having a sleepover with her two favorite guys. The kids watched a movie and had popcorn, then I took her to get her into bed. I had every intention of going back out and hanging out with Maurice and Sally after I got her to go to sleep but I ended up falling asleep too. (Which ended up being a good thing anyway. That's the only night I got more than 5 hours of sleep this week.)
I woke up Friday to find the kids and Sally already up. I got up and hung out with Sally a bit and then Nicole called because we were trying to figure out what to do Saturday. We were originally going to take the kids to the zoo but it's even more expensive now then it used to be. While I was waiting for her to call me back, I ended up dozing off again on the bed. When I finally woke up, Sally was about to leave and Maurice was home from work. Sally left, we got the kids and ourselves some lunch, then I had to drive to Speedway so I could meet the pets and get the keys to the house I was staying at. That ended up taking two hours so by the time I got back to the Broaddus', it was almost time to leave. I took Mikayla home, packed and drove to Speedway again to drop my stuff off so that it would be daylight when I was lugging everything in. (It wasn't the best neighborhood. Pretty ghetto-y.) Then I turned back around and drove back to the Broaddus' for Ro's "party". (Which consisted of me, the Broaddi, Jenn and Andy, Jon, and Ro.) We had fun. The girls made a ice cream run and we had some tasty cake that Jenn brought. Sheryl stopped by a little after mid-night and we all left around one.
Maurice had me call him and talk to him while I drove and then went in the house and checked to make sure everything was ok. I was already jumpy from the other night so I was glad to have him on the phone. When I went to bed, I had the steering wheel lock that they had given me for my car but I had forgotten to put in on the bed next to me. I also had a big heavy flashlight and my keys were with that stuff. I grabbed a sharp knife from the kitchen and put that on the headboard. I had my shoes and a sweatshirt right by the bed and I slept with my cell phone in my hand. If someone was gonna break in and hurt me, I wasn't going down without a fight. Needless to say, I didn't sleep real well. Every time I woke up, I jumped and was ready to fight.
I woke up on Saturday, rather relieved to be alive and got ready to go pick up Mikayla so we could meet everyone at the park. Despite Maurice's ragging on me about being late, we were the first ones there by about 5 minutes. Nicole got there with the four kids and we went over to the pavillion and ate lunch. Maurice arrived soon after and the kids took off for the water area. Ro arrived sometime after that. The kids had an absolute blast. I ended up being on baby duty because he seemed to really like me. We were there during his naptime so I stuck him in the stroller and went for a nice long walk so he would go to sleep. When I got back from the walk, it was time for Mikayla and me to leave because I had to get ready to go to the Dave Matthews concert. (That is a story in and of itself so that'll be a seperate blog.)
Sunday morning I woke up and seriously debated going to church. I hadn't gotten much sleep again and Josh had even told me not to go because he knew I wouldn't have enough sleep. But, of course, I don't listen so I went. ;-) Actually, the only reason I ended up going was I needed to get Mikayla's DVDs that I had let Jer borrow the week before for Sunday school. So then I had to decide whether I should stay and shower at that house or go to my own and be a little later. I ended up going to my house A: because I really didn't want to smell like dogs, B: the hair would have been all over my black pants and C: I was ready to be done with that house and neighborhood. I went home and showered and got to church around 11:30. Nicole was there with the kids and the baby had been squirmy so she was walking around. I took him and we went in and sat and not only was he sitting still, he ended up going to sleep for me. :-D I had to ask Josh to get my bread and wine for communion because I couldn't get up but that was fine with me. It just made me happy that the baby felt safe and secure enough with me to sleep. After communion, Nicole rounded up the rest of the kids and got them in the car, then I walked Ammari out. He amazingly stayed asleep through the whole thing.
While I had been sitting at the table with the baby, I'd seen Sally motioning for me to turn around. Maurice was back against the wall behind me with a guy I hadn't seen before and was motioning for me to come over. I gave him the "I'm holding a sleeping baby, you come here" look so he and the guy walked over and Maurice says, "This is MarcDav." *squeal* MarcDav is a member of the message board from Ohio so it was exciting to meet him in person. That's gonna be three weeks in a row that we get to meet out of towners from the msg. board. Last weekend was Noles, yesterday was Marc and this coming weekend is Chesya, ValCarrie, Brian Keene, possibly Shrews and maybe one or two others. Sweet!
After church, a lot of the DP people went over to Broad Ripple park and had a picnic with Nora. That was a ton of fun. I hadn't been to that park in years. Marc came with us so we got to talk to him some more. We took a couple of "message board" pictures since so many of our members were present. I went and played on the swings for a little bit. :-) (I'm such a kid.) Then I went home to rest because that night was my grandmother's birthday and the last night at Nora for the summer.
We went to my aunt's and had a nice little party for my grandma. It was *so* weird seeing her. She's lived in Florida for a long, long time so it was strange seeing her up here. She's also dyed her hair for forever. It's always been brown. But she's stopped dying it and it's very much gray. It kinda took me aback, though I was able to recover quickly. We had pizza and cookies and ice cream. The boys had some sort of video game golf game that most of us took turns playing and we sat outside on the porch with the fountains. It was nice and relaxed.
Joshua and I left around 8:30 to go to Nora and got there while everyone was still eating and talking. That was fun, sitting and talking with Maurice, Danny, Josh, the Mayes' aunt Mary and Joshua. Later I got chased around the church by Kristen for telling Maurice about something that he then teased her about. (Don't worry, I'm also going to blog about it. ;-) ) Then Joshua and I went to BW3's with Maurice and David met us up there. It was wonderful to sleep in my own bed last night.
Today I woke up late, wrote my INtake blog prompt and then got ready to meet Emily. We went to HalfPrice books (bad, bad idea! ;-) ) and Panera. I finally just bought my own copy of 'God's Politics' so I can give the librarys back. lol. It was soooo good to see Em. (Seriously girl, we need to get better about this. :-D )
All in all, a great weekend. And it's about to get even better because I'm gonna go blog about Dave!!!!!!!
That night we still hadn't heard anything about the rapist so I took Mikayla and we stayed the night at the Broaddus'. We were supposed to have a play date the next day anyway and I figured she would enjoy having a sleepover with her two favorite guys. The kids watched a movie and had popcorn, then I took her to get her into bed. I had every intention of going back out and hanging out with Maurice and Sally after I got her to go to sleep but I ended up falling asleep too. (Which ended up being a good thing anyway. That's the only night I got more than 5 hours of sleep this week.)
I woke up Friday to find the kids and Sally already up. I got up and hung out with Sally a bit and then Nicole called because we were trying to figure out what to do Saturday. We were originally going to take the kids to the zoo but it's even more expensive now then it used to be. While I was waiting for her to call me back, I ended up dozing off again on the bed. When I finally woke up, Sally was about to leave and Maurice was home from work. Sally left, we got the kids and ourselves some lunch, then I had to drive to Speedway so I could meet the pets and get the keys to the house I was staying at. That ended up taking two hours so by the time I got back to the Broaddus', it was almost time to leave. I took Mikayla home, packed and drove to Speedway again to drop my stuff off so that it would be daylight when I was lugging everything in. (It wasn't the best neighborhood. Pretty ghetto-y.) Then I turned back around and drove back to the Broaddus' for Ro's "party". (Which consisted of me, the Broaddi, Jenn and Andy, Jon, and Ro.) We had fun. The girls made a ice cream run and we had some tasty cake that Jenn brought. Sheryl stopped by a little after mid-night and we all left around one.
Maurice had me call him and talk to him while I drove and then went in the house and checked to make sure everything was ok. I was already jumpy from the other night so I was glad to have him on the phone. When I went to bed, I had the steering wheel lock that they had given me for my car but I had forgotten to put in on the bed next to me. I also had a big heavy flashlight and my keys were with that stuff. I grabbed a sharp knife from the kitchen and put that on the headboard. I had my shoes and a sweatshirt right by the bed and I slept with my cell phone in my hand. If someone was gonna break in and hurt me, I wasn't going down without a fight. Needless to say, I didn't sleep real well. Every time I woke up, I jumped and was ready to fight.
I woke up on Saturday, rather relieved to be alive and got ready to go pick up Mikayla so we could meet everyone at the park. Despite Maurice's ragging on me about being late, we were the first ones there by about 5 minutes. Nicole got there with the four kids and we went over to the pavillion and ate lunch. Maurice arrived soon after and the kids took off for the water area. Ro arrived sometime after that. The kids had an absolute blast. I ended up being on baby duty because he seemed to really like me. We were there during his naptime so I stuck him in the stroller and went for a nice long walk so he would go to sleep. When I got back from the walk, it was time for Mikayla and me to leave because I had to get ready to go to the Dave Matthews concert. (That is a story in and of itself so that'll be a seperate blog.)
Sunday morning I woke up and seriously debated going to church. I hadn't gotten much sleep again and Josh had even told me not to go because he knew I wouldn't have enough sleep. But, of course, I don't listen so I went. ;-) Actually, the only reason I ended up going was I needed to get Mikayla's DVDs that I had let Jer borrow the week before for Sunday school. So then I had to decide whether I should stay and shower at that house or go to my own and be a little later. I ended up going to my house A: because I really didn't want to smell like dogs, B: the hair would have been all over my black pants and C: I was ready to be done with that house and neighborhood. I went home and showered and got to church around 11:30. Nicole was there with the kids and the baby had been squirmy so she was walking around. I took him and we went in and sat and not only was he sitting still, he ended up going to sleep for me. :-D I had to ask Josh to get my bread and wine for communion because I couldn't get up but that was fine with me. It just made me happy that the baby felt safe and secure enough with me to sleep. After communion, Nicole rounded up the rest of the kids and got them in the car, then I walked Ammari out. He amazingly stayed asleep through the whole thing.
While I had been sitting at the table with the baby, I'd seen Sally motioning for me to turn around. Maurice was back against the wall behind me with a guy I hadn't seen before and was motioning for me to come over. I gave him the "I'm holding a sleeping baby, you come here" look so he and the guy walked over and Maurice says, "This is MarcDav." *squeal* MarcDav is a member of the message board from Ohio so it was exciting to meet him in person. That's gonna be three weeks in a row that we get to meet out of towners from the msg. board. Last weekend was Noles, yesterday was Marc and this coming weekend is Chesya, ValCarrie, Brian Keene, possibly Shrews and maybe one or two others. Sweet!
After church, a lot of the DP people went over to Broad Ripple park and had a picnic with Nora. That was a ton of fun. I hadn't been to that park in years. Marc came with us so we got to talk to him some more. We took a couple of "message board" pictures since so many of our members were present. I went and played on the swings for a little bit. :-) (I'm such a kid.) Then I went home to rest because that night was my grandmother's birthday and the last night at Nora for the summer.
We went to my aunt's and had a nice little party for my grandma. It was *so* weird seeing her. She's lived in Florida for a long, long time so it was strange seeing her up here. She's also dyed her hair for forever. It's always been brown. But she's stopped dying it and it's very much gray. It kinda took me aback, though I was able to recover quickly. We had pizza and cookies and ice cream. The boys had some sort of video game golf game that most of us took turns playing and we sat outside on the porch with the fountains. It was nice and relaxed.
Joshua and I left around 8:30 to go to Nora and got there while everyone was still eating and talking. That was fun, sitting and talking with Maurice, Danny, Josh, the Mayes' aunt Mary and Joshua. Later I got chased around the church by Kristen for telling Maurice about something that he then teased her about. (Don't worry, I'm also going to blog about it. ;-) ) Then Joshua and I went to BW3's with Maurice and David met us up there. It was wonderful to sleep in my own bed last night.
Today I woke up late, wrote my INtake blog prompt and then got ready to meet Emily. We went to HalfPrice books (bad, bad idea! ;-) ) and Panera. I finally just bought my own copy of 'God's Politics' so I can give the librarys back. lol. It was soooo good to see Em. (Seriously girl, we need to get better about this. :-D )
All in all, a great weekend. And it's about to get even better because I'm gonna go blog about Dave!!!!!!!
Friday, June 02, 2006
Oh Good.....
This would be why I stayed the night at the Broaddus' last night. This is right by me.
~ L
Marion County - Police fear there's a serial rapist in Marion County. On Wednesday morning, witnesses think they spotted a man suspected in three attacks on the northwest side.
At 64th and Hoover, some women watched and worried Wednesday.
"There was a guy outside of a business frequented by women up there that was acting suspiciously. Apparently someone talked to him, his story didn't make much sense," said Sgt. Thomas Kern, Crimestoppers.
They called police and the man took off. But deputies pulled out a composite sketch and asked if he looked familiar. The witnesses said the man they saw resembled the sketch.
"He is a serious danger to society and all women given what has taken place in the past," said Captain Phil Burton.
The man is suspected in two rapes and a sexual assault. Three separate cases all occurred on the northwest side between January and April . In one case, "she was actually on her way to her car and actually there were some children. This man was pretty bold and attacked women when there were other people around."
It was similar to an incident in Alabama that was caught on tape. A man kidnapped a woman in the daytime. She was later found and freed.
The Indianapolis attacks happened a few blocks to a few miles from where witnesses say the suspicious man was hanging out Wednesday. One victim bit him and got away. Another was not so fortunate.
"He actually raped a female inside her residence at gunpoint as well. He basically stated to her that if in fact she did not do what he said he would actually kill her," said Burton.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
It's Been A Year
It's been a year since I started working as a nanny. That is unbelievable. I feel like I just got out of Chick-fil-A.
Today went much better. No screaming fits. She always seems to do better when I'm the one to get her up instead of Valorie getting her and then having to leave a few minutes later. She'll say "Mama?" and I'll say "Mama's at work. She'll be home in a little bit." and then she'll say "Bit." For some reason, that always cracks me up and I try to get her to repeat it. After awhile she just looks at me like "You're dumb." But she's always okay with it when I get her up. *shrug*
Now she's in the phase of not wanting to wear clothes. I remember Mikayla going through that phase when she was around the same age. So Reegan just wanders around in her diaper. It's pretty funny to watch. Sometimes I'll give her her clothes and she'll sit there for 15-20 minutes, just trying to figure out how to get them on.
Lynda has started wanting to watch her at Lynda's house so I took her over there this afternoon. We were sitting at a light right outside their neighborhood and this truck pulled up next to us. Next thing I hear are kissing sounds and that drunk hill-billy laugh that you always hear in movies where the hero is about to get in a barfight with the guy who won't leave his girl alone. They said something that I didn't quite catch and I continued to ignore them. Then they *still* weren't moving when the arrow turned green so to make it completely apparent that I was ignoring them, I turned back toward Reegan and started talking to her and stroking her leg. They finally pulled away. I was so annoyed. The rest of the drive, I prayed over Reegan that she wouldn't have to face many of the pains that me and my friends have gone through at the hands of men like that.
Reegan is probably going to be coming to VBS with me so some of you will get to meet her. It looks like my character can just have a daughter for 3 days. :-)
I told Valorie about applying for school and she said to let her know what I needed to do. She said that her schedule was flexible. This job is such a blessing. Here's to my first year as a nanny. :-)
Today went much better. No screaming fits. She always seems to do better when I'm the one to get her up instead of Valorie getting her and then having to leave a few minutes later. She'll say "Mama?" and I'll say "Mama's at work. She'll be home in a little bit." and then she'll say "Bit." For some reason, that always cracks me up and I try to get her to repeat it. After awhile she just looks at me like "You're dumb." But she's always okay with it when I get her up. *shrug*
Now she's in the phase of not wanting to wear clothes. I remember Mikayla going through that phase when she was around the same age. So Reegan just wanders around in her diaper. It's pretty funny to watch. Sometimes I'll give her her clothes and she'll sit there for 15-20 minutes, just trying to figure out how to get them on.
Lynda has started wanting to watch her at Lynda's house so I took her over there this afternoon. We were sitting at a light right outside their neighborhood and this truck pulled up next to us. Next thing I hear are kissing sounds and that drunk hill-billy laugh that you always hear in movies where the hero is about to get in a barfight with the guy who won't leave his girl alone. They said something that I didn't quite catch and I continued to ignore them. Then they *still* weren't moving when the arrow turned green so to make it completely apparent that I was ignoring them, I turned back toward Reegan and started talking to her and stroking her leg. They finally pulled away. I was so annoyed. The rest of the drive, I prayed over Reegan that she wouldn't have to face many of the pains that me and my friends have gone through at the hands of men like that.
Reegan is probably going to be coming to VBS with me so some of you will get to meet her. It looks like my character can just have a daughter for 3 days. :-)
I told Valorie about applying for school and she said to let her know what I needed to do. She said that her schedule was flexible. This job is such a blessing. Here's to my first year as a nanny. :-)
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